Yes, this is possibly the simplest app ever written and was cooked up as a lunch bet between myself (@sundriedcoder) and David Justice (@davidjustice) while waiting on our TFS server to be rebuilt. Goal, ...

We've recently implemented a new branching strategy for our Team Foundation Server's Source Control. It was a great idea that's working out well but it caused a few problems with our Continuous Integration ...

So, somehow within the past five years I’ve mapped out my life to lead to a point where I’m sitting here blogging on GeeksWithBlogs.net. I never would have guessed it…lol There’s no need for me to sweat ...

After a couple painfull rollbacks of TFS checkins I dreaded doing so again with TFS Powertoys or individually checking out specific file versions one by one. This time I found a much easier trick. Open ...

This requires a testrunconfig file that has been configured correctly. To do this I did the following: In VS2008, right click on Solution Items folder and select Add - New Item... Select Test Run Configuration ...

The following will make your builds (running on a TFS Server) execute your unit tests after the build: Open your build file (eg TFSBuild.proj). VS2008 has a nice xml editor for this. Search for the RunTest ...

Once you have imported a list of work items in excel from a team project in TFS, the excel file always proposes work items from the same team project. It does not seem possible to obtain the "connect to ...

Last month (May 2009) Microsoft has released its first beta for Visual Studio Team System 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 release, two of the most waited and wanted tools in developer community. From ...

*Moved to: Connecting VS2008 to any TFS2010 Project CollectionEasy peasy, all you need is the full URL from the project collection and you will be able to connect directly to it as if it was a different ...

*Moved to: Upgrading to TFS 2010 Beta 1 and SQL Collation I have just finished installing TFS 2010 beta 1 and doing an upgrade of out TFS 2008 data. This did not go well… Due to a collation mismatch between ...

1. Introduction Have you ever been in a situation where the users are unable to explain how an error was displayed on their computer and moreover describe the details of the error message? Well… I wonder ...

*Moved to: Solution to connecting to TFS using HTTPS over the Internet from behind ISAThis problem it seams is to do with the way Visual Studio 2010 connects to your TFS server over HTTPS. The default ...

*Moved to: Unable to connect to TFS using HTTPS over the Internet from behind ISAI have a number of CodePlex projects that I connect to from work and I have had a problem since 2008 that it does not always ...

There is a bug in the TFS 2010 Beta 1 installation, it is described in section 1.3.4 of the Readme file but since a lot of us go read that file after installation is complete I figured the more blog posts ...

GO OUT AND GET IT! Downloads include Team Suite 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010. There are a LOT of new features to check out. Brian Harry has been blogging the features in detail for a while now. ...

Well it look like it’s finally upon us. Soma just announce the availability of it for today on MSDN. Read all about it here. I’ve been busy evaluating it and giving feedback on it for the last 3 years ...

*Moved to: Connecting VS2010 to TFS 2008Connecting Visual Studio 2010 to Team Foundation Server 2008 is a snitch… If you have done it from VS200x to TFS200x then you will have no problems understanding ...

Recently I posted about UppercuT, the insanely easy to use build framework. There are so many things you can do with UppercuT, that it may make your life easier. We decided to make it even easier to use ...

Visual Studio Team System is getting a new tool: Microsoft Test and Lab Manager. It was codenamed Camano and announced last year at PDC08, but new details have emerged via Jason Zander's blog. The tool ...

Donn’s a pretty interesting guy I’ve known for a while now. He’s an active community leader and has had a rather interesting career path. I have been nagging him for an interview for some time. I’ll let ...

I've known Kirstin pretty much since she came to Magenic, and she's one of the smartest (and most energetic) people I know. Shortly after joining our team, she was off and running and hasn't slowed down ...

We're shaking things up a bit over here at NINEQuestions.net. My 32nd cousin (she was born a Williams) and temporary co-host Rachel Appel is turning things around and asking me the questions this time. ...

*Moved to: Fail a build if tests failIt took me longer than I thought it would to find this, but is you are using TFS2008 and you want builds to fail if any of the tests fail then you can add the following ...

Brian Harry has posted a list of features that will be in the upcoming beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 Team System. Unfortunately, the date of release for beta 1 has not been announced yet. Architecture (http://blogs.msdn.com/came... ...

This is a pilot podcast to accompany the fortnightly MSDN Flash newsletter. I would appreciate feedback on what you liked and what you didn’t – and even whether you managed to make it through the 20minutes. ...

Brian Harry is continuing his series on new VSTS 2010 features. His latest entry deals with some restructuring of the Team Foundation Server and specifically the way projects are stored. Team Project Collections ...

Issue: Ensure your code is the latest before a check out. Not working with the latest code often creates a confusing situation for a developers trying to debug misbehaving code. Furthermore, it becomes ...

There is a neat little trick that one has to follow inorder to zip a entire folder into a gzip file. It is essentially a two step process Zip individual files in a folder using TarArchive Zip the tar file ...

I was discussing with one of our TFS specialists the costs of going down the route of Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server – specifically in the context of comparing it with purchasing ...

I was informed April 1st that I had received the MVP Award for Team System. It first appeared on the blogsite of Rune Grothaug, and later the same day a mail dropped into my Inbox from Microsoft. I knew ...

We have a number of upcoming IT and Business Application courses, and I am willing to make a deal! Email me to get signed up and to start the bargaining! 6215 Implementing and Administering Microsoft Visual ...

Development related: Extend IE7 and IE8: Make extending IE7 and IE8 that much easier with a little spicIE :-) With SpicIE you can develop your own event handlers, toolbar buttons, menu entries, toolbars ...

I just ran across this error while using the Team Foundation Server Power Tools to import a work item template XML document into a TFS instance: Error 0x8013150A: An error relating to security occurred. ...

Donn’s a pretty interesting guy I’ve known for a while now. He’s an active community leader and has had a rather interesting career path. I have been nagging him for an interview for some time. I’ll let ...

I attended the MVP Global Summit 2009 in Seattle/Redmond, Washington a couple of weeks ago. I had a pretty good time hanging out with other MVPs and the Managed Languages team. I learned a lot, and I had ...

After reading Tom Fischer's blog entry on How to pull all Pending Changes (Checked Out Items) from TFS 2005 or 2008 I thought I would look into how to accomplish the same objective using SSRS and SQL. ...

Issue: We wanted to exposes work items, bugs, etc. to the customer without exposing all the other Web Access Tabs such as Source, Documents, and Builds. Solution: Team System Web Access SP1 Team System ...

FileStream data type is a very important feature of SQL Server 2008 and gradually getting popular amongst developer for it’s feasibility. And in the past few days specially after “Configure SQL Server ...